Proposal for revitalizing the sponsorship process for packaging

[Matthias Runge]

On 26/04/12 00:21, Ken Dreyer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
>> My proposal is at
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tibbs/RevitalizingSponsorshipProposal
>>
>> I've run this by FESCo, whose response was favorable, so I'm sending
>> this to a larger audience.  Please let me know what you think.
> 
> Looks good to me. I was unaware that sponsors are (currently) also
> provenpackagers. I've considered the idea of becoming a sponsor
Yes, this is a good step ahead. I never understood, why sponsoring is
mightier (in the view of doing harm) than proven packager. A sponsor can
elevate packagers and approve packages, a proven packager could demolish
all packages.

I thought of applying myself for sponsor, but can not substantiate, why
I should get proven packager rights.
Helping out review process for new packagers results in finding a
potential sponsor. This is some kind of suboptimal for helping people.

(To be clear, this never made a problem for me, but slows down the process.)

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Matthias Runge <mrunge at matthias-runge.de>
               <mrunge at fedoraproject.org>